Chipselect in SPI binding with mpc5200-psc-spi

[Kári Davíðsson]

Now my driver gets probed.

This "modalias" error was due to wrong "compatible" attribute of
my of node.

But I still need to have the call to of_register_spi_devices().

The attached patch shows what I mean.

rg
kd

Grant Likely wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Kári
> Davíðsson<kari.davidsson at marel.com> wrote:
>> Is this true?
>>
>> Grant Likely wrote:
>>> Yes, this is right.  The psc_spi driver automatically registers all
>>> spi children that it finds in the device tree onto the SPI bus.
>>> Therefore registering an spi_driver() is the right thing to do.
>> I am writing an SPI protocol driver and I find that my driver
>> is never probed.
>>
>> I tried to add and call to of_register_spi_devices() in the
>> drivers/spi/mpc52xx_psc_spi.c::mpc52xx_psc_spi_of_probe() function,
>> without much effect besided that the DTS node is parsed but the driver probe
>> is not called, actually it complains about a modalias for my node is
>> missing.
> 
> What do you see when you look in /sys/bus/spi/devices?  You should see
> a directory for your device.  What do you see in /sys/bus/spi/drivers?
>  In here you should see your driver.  If they are both there, then you
> just have a problem matching your driver name to the device name.
> 
> g.
> 
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